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ON BONUS BONDS 38,000,000 Certificates to Be Mailed to 2,000,000 War Veterans. Wj the Associated Press. Government agencies worked at top ■peed today to deliver the 38,000,000 idjusted service "baby bonds” to America's veterans, beginning June 15. > Huge stacks of the neatly printed certificates bearing the portrait of .Andrew Jackson—the soldier Presi dent—already are being shuttled along the necessarily complicated route from printing press to mail room. When the postman hands the last veteran his bond envelope, the larg est registered mail order In the Na tion’s history will have been completed, officials say. 2,000,000 to Get Bonds. «• Approximately 2,000,000 ex-soldiers will receive one or more of the 50 bonds, Secretary Morgenthau esti mated. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, vet erans' administrator, viewed the list of prospective recipients and specu lated that the certificates, if laid end to-end. would reach from New York to Istanbul. Getting the bonds off to the vet erans is far more of a task than run ning them through the Bureau of En graving office presses. They must be sent to the loans and currency division of the Treasury for checking and rechecking against lists from the Veterans Administration. Add to Complicity of Job. Odd lengths of service and varying loans obtained on the certificates add to the complexity of the job. If the veterans received only round sums, compensation could be figured with considerably less detail through allo cation of the $50 bonds. But with the majority of claims running into odd dollars and cents, the Treasury must write checks for the odd amounts. Some of these are for as little as 1 cent. Officials predict that the Government will gain on many of these because they say some veterans Will keep them for souvenirs. -f --- PRESIDENCY REPORTED | AMBITION OF HOPKINS Dickinson Charges W. P. A. Funds Will Build Up His Political Machine. * Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins is said to be nourishing the ambition of some day becoming Presi dent, Senator Dickinson, Republican, of Iowa, told the Senate yesterday* while attacking the amount of power which the pending deficiency bill would give the W. P. A. head over relief funds. Dickinson said he has heard whispers about the presidential ambitions of Hopkins. The Iowa Senator then added: * “Of course, it is an honorable am- 1 bition to become President, and no one objects to Mr. Hopkins nourishing that dream. But arc the taxpayers of the country to pay for building up a political machine to be used by Mr. Hopkins for the attainment of the White House?” 1 Exhibit Includes Intricate Ship Model Patient Machinist Works 3 Years in Fashioning Half Com plete Fighter of 1637. '--r- - H. P. Harnsberger looks over a collection of ship models that includes one of his own. —Star Staff Photo. BERTHED in dry-dock on a desk in a New York avenue build ing is a half-finished model— built in part from lard trays —of the jewel of the proud navy of the hapless British King, Charles I. Tire miniature man-of-war. Sover eign of the Seas, testifies to the infi nite patience of H. J. Willett, a ma chinist, one of the 20 men, among them President Roosevelt, whose mod els are included in the sixth annual show of the Ship Model Makers' Club of Washington. The show opened last Saturday night at the Canadian Pacific Railway offices, New York ave nue at Fourteenth street, and will continue through next Sunday. The original Sovereign of the Seas was in her day the most costly and elaborate ship ever known to Eng land. She was a year in building in a Scotch yard, was launched on the Clyde in 1637. and fought her way into a proud place in history until 1697, when she burned and sank. Three Years on Model. Willett has been three years at his model. It is a marvel of detail, with 70 hinged gun ports, each a quarter the size of a postage stamp; 200 tiny shingles, about the size of small ants, glued together to curve over the dou ble-deck runways along the officers' j quarters of each side of the after por tion of the ship, below the poop deck; 104 standards the size of matches, carved, planed and sandpapered down from maple planks and then rounded to fit holes so they might stand firm to hold the railing. “I imagine I'll spend another three years before she's complete.” said Wil lett, who obtained the plans through a contest run by Popular Mechanicas Magazine. “The rigging alone will take a year and a half.” Graced by Carving. The model is rich with carving. On the prow are six 1-inch figures and between each of the four gun rows running around the boat is a wide variety of sculpture in wood. The builders of the original Sovereign of the Seas employed 100 wood carvers to make their figures. To bring variety into his life as a model-maker, Willett during the last tw'o months completed a 20-inch model of he newest and mightiest ship in British maritime history, the Queen Mary. Near the Queen Mary is a Nor mandie, pride of the French. The Normandie was the work of Dr. R. H. Mitchell, resident pediatrician at Children's Hospital, whose models are all tiny because his hospital room is so small. His Normandie won 25th place in a contest entered by 7.000 modelers, and will bring him a silver cup. President Roosevelt's model is a U. S. Brig-of-War, 1812. “He wrote us and asked if we would care to exhibit it.” laughed Kenneth Foote, the founder of the club. “There’s nothing honorary about his affiliation with the club. He's a real member. He takes an active interest In all we do. He writes us frequently.” PENNSYLVANIA BODY PLANS W. P. A. PROBE Five Republicans on Senate Com mittee for Investi gation. by the Associated Press. HARRISBURG. Pa., May 19 —The ; Republican State Senate voted after ! long, vigorous debate last night to authorize a "searching and impartial” investigation of the Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania. Five Republicans were named on the committee. Republican Senators argued the in quiry was necessary to bare "politics” in work relief, and Democratic mem bers countered with a charge it was designed to “criticize and condemn” the works progress. JERSEY 10 TEST BORAH, LANDON Kansan Has Organization Support in First State Wide Contest. BACKGROUND— Internal political affairs of New Jersey, which included the reper cussions of the Lindbergh-Haupt• mann case, have overshadowed the contributions the State may make toward the national political cam paigns. Talk of Gov. Hoffman as a pos sible candidate lor national office waned long ago as he was caught in the cross-fire of partisan organiza tions within his State, and outside commentators deplored “the break down of justice in New Jersey"— this because the Governor delayed the execution of the convicted Ger man carpenter. By tne Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J„ May 19 —The New Jersey primaries today brought Gov, Alt M. Landon of Kansas opposite Senator William E. Borah of Idaho in their first State-wide contest for Re publican presidential preference. Landon was supported by the State Republican organization. President Roosevelt was assured all 32 convention voted in the Democratic primary because the State organiza tion’s slate was unopposed. All five candidates for four places as delegates-at-large to the Republican convention are pledged to Landon. There are Landon candidates in 13 of the 14 congressional districts. There are Borah candidates in 11 districts. Friends have entered both In the preferential primary, but the outcome will not be binding on the delegates. In the Democratic preferential primary Col. Henry Breckinridge, legal adviser to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, as the sole entrant, can be beaten only by a write-in vote. Interest, however, was centered more in the so-called ‘‘Jersey justice" fight between Gov. Harold G. Hoffman and Franklin W. Fort than in the presiden tial voting. Although Fort, charging the Gov ernor unfit to represent the party be cause of his intervention in the Haupt mann case, made the fight to keep Hoffman out, both may be elected delegates. Heavy voting in the Republican boxes was expected as a result of the bitter Hoffman-Fort campaign. The two carried on their fight to the last minute, Hoffman arranging to speak twice over the radio today, after he had voted in South Amboy. He knocked down a questioner who aroused his resentment before a speech in New York last night. In an address he said “Salome Fort" asked for his “head on a silver platter,” but his guess was that to morrow morning Fort would “put the borrowed robes of purity and Justice back in the moth balls." FV>rt, speaking in his home town j of East Orange, said: • “No man has done more in my memory to attempt to break down the fundamental American respect for the power and dignity of our courts of justice. In so doing, the Governor has directly allied himself with the New Deal assault upon our courts and our judicial system." Both parties are nominating candi dates for the United States Senate, 14 seats in the House of Representa tives, 7 in the State Senate and all 60 in the State Assembly. “Bullet” voting was expected to play an important part in the Hoff man-Port outcome, although both candidates urged their friends to vote for four delegate-at-large candidates Instead of confining their support to one. Hoffman’s fistic encounter occurred outside the rainbow roofc in Radio City. He floored Lou WiMU>ar. re porter for a news agency (Universal Service). Witnesses said the two men were walking toward the elevators, dis cussing the political campaign, when the Governor was heard to say, “no man can call me yellow." The blow followed. Wedemar left while Hoffman re turned to the rainbow room to address a dinner in connection with the first national exhibition of American art. Resettlement (Continued From First Page.) Department. Eighteen of these have been completed, and work on the oth er* is being pushed. The Berwyn project is in the same classification as the outlawed Bound Brook enterprise, but officials thought the Appeals Court decision applied only to the latter. Housing projects at Cincinnati and Milwaukee, too, are unaffected, officials added. McCarl Ruling to Be Asked. Controller General McCarl will be asked whether the Coal Commission jobs must expire. Pending his deci sion. the agency has $400,000 with which to pay salaries and do other administrative work before June 30 If it is allowed to continue, which was thought unlikely unless substitute leg islation is enacted, it may receive a $900,000 appropriation intended for it in an Interior Department bill now pending in Congress. Resettlement is proceeding along Allaying the Irritation in Cystitis To neutralize the acids causing cystitis — bladder inflammation — drink Mountain Valley Mineral Water direct from famous Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mildly alka Jine. Deeply satisfying. Don’t risk life-long suffering. Phone for free descriptive booklets. Mountain Valley Mineral Water MtT. 104VJ 1 I OX K ST. N.W. the lines of an opinion by Attorney General Cummings yesterday after the Court of Appeals had acted. He said: "In a 3-to-2 decision of the United State Court of Appeals for the Dis trict of Columbia, it was decided that the suburban housing project of the Resettlement Administration in Bound Brook, N. J., was unauthorized. The majority held that the activity was an interference with the reserved powers of the States and depended upon the unlawful delegation of legis lative power by Congress. • • • The decision was limited to the particular type of project involved, and, as I interpret it, was not intended to apply to other agencies of the Government nor to other ictlvities of the Re settlement Administration." Created by executiv; order April 30, 1935, the Resettlement Administration took over several activities of other Government agencies, and was financed by allocations from the $4,880,000,000 relief fund. Among activities taken over were: From the Interior Department, sub sistence homesteads. Many of these In Initial stages were abandoned and the list reduced to 33. Prom P. E. R. A., a series of rural community developments, and the task of providing relief or financial aid for more thai^ 600,000 farm families. Prom the P. C. A., debt adjustment activities, in which local committees help farmers and creditors to adjust and liquidate debts. From the A. A. A., parts of a land development program. Prom all the agencies, the R. A. took over some 15,000 employes. A total of $275,549,944 v.as allocated to the Resettlement Administration. On April 15, a total of $173X01,832 had been encumbered, leaving a bal ance Of $102,438,112. Work of the administration had been divided into four major phases: '•Rehabilitation’' of needy farm fam ilies; completion of 33 subsistence homesteads and construction of the four “major” low-cost housing proj ects; purchase of submat ginal lands to be turned into parks and game refuges, and removal of farm families frcm submarginal lands to good farming areas. rJune Bride Happiness and ... Savings Too! 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